The Reformatory conducts an educational program with regular
classes in basic education as well as in vocational and industrial arts
education. The institution has the services of a psychologist to aid
in the classification and examination of those committed. Located on
an 875 acre farm, a dairy cattle herd is maintained which supplies
dairy products to the Reformatory as well as to other state institu-
tions. A cannery, metal shop, brush shop and bookbindery are also
operated as State Use Industries. Other inmates are employed on
Public Works projects. The average population of the Reformatory
for the fiscal year 1954 was 980 (Code 1951, Art. 27, secs. 760-763).

Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund ...................... $ 972,809 $1,082,523
Special Fund ........................ 96,257 60,000

Total .............................. $1,069,066 $1,142,523
Staff: 185.
15 State Use Industries
4 Public Works

MARYLAND STATE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN
Alice M. Blum, Superintendent
Jessups (Anne Arundel County) Telephone: Elkridge 442

The Maryland State Reformatory for Women was established in
1941 as the Women's Prison and the name was changed in 1945. All
women convicted of either felonies or misdemeanors, who are sen-
tenced to confinement by a Court or a Justice of the Peace to any
institution other than a jail, are confined at the Reformatory. It is
within the discretion of the Court as to whether the sentence im-
posed shall be of a definite or an indeterminate length. Of the 167
women now confined, approximately one half are serving indetermi-
nate sentences. A sewing shop is operated as a unit of the State
Use Industries. Approximately ten acres of garden have been devel-
oped by the women for the institutional table. The average population
for the fiscal year 1954 was 177 (Code 1951, Art. 27, secs. 764-767).

Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund ............................ $270,621 $287,764
Staff: 63
1 State Use Industries

PATUXENT INSTITUTION

Harold M. Boslow, M.D., Director
Alfred F. Dowd, Associate Director (Superintendent)

Jessups (Anne Arundel County) Telephone: Elkridge 1000

The Patuxent Institution was authorized by the General Assembly
in 1961 and was officially opened on January 3, 1955. The Director
of the institution is also the Chief Psychiatrist of the Department of
Correction. He is appointed by the Governor with the advice and
consent of the Senate, from a list of nominees submitted by a special
committee composed of the Professor of Psychiatry at the Univer-